You look at your hole cards and see a big pair, like JJ+. Joy is your first reaction, but playing big pairs in NL is not as simple as it sounds.
Of course it depends at what stakes you are playing. If you play the micro or low limits at one of some low stakes [...]
Steve Schirripa, the broad-shouldered, burly actor best known for playing mob soldier Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri on HBO’s The Sopranos, is teasing a congenial older gentleman about his massive Stetson, which sticks out at this event in Las Vegas’ pure nightclub. That the older gentleman is poker godfather Doyle Brunson doesn’t seem to fluster the actor. [...]